GRE Word List
POTENTIAL
existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality
The meaning of the word potential is existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| palimpsest | writing material (such as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased |
| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |
| char | any of a genus (Salvelinus) of small-scaled trouts with light-colored spots |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| dyspeptic | indigestion |
| deface | to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details |
| fleck | streak |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| forbearance | a refraining from the enforcement of something (such as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due |
| facet | any of the definable aspects that make up a subject (as of contemplation) or an object (as of consideration) |